Do you like the turbografx 16?

[Pop Culture Portal]

Splatterhouse was the sole reason I USED to own one, and I loved it...wish I had never gotten rid of it...and I bought it new from Babage's just before they switched over to Babbage's Ect., or whatever they call themselves now.

I also liked JJ & Jeff (I'm probably in the minority).  My brother and I would play that forever, but it never seemed like we got anywhere with it.

[chrisbid]

Just to confirm, was the TG16 part of the same console generation as the SNES and Genesis?

yes... but it came just a bit before the genesis, and has an 8 bit processor.  it had a second processor that the marketing department decided to add 8+8 to make it a 16 bit machine

[Cobra]

So it wasn't a true 16-bit system?
Well that was a pretty rocken SplatterHouse conversion in that case.

Sega should of used the same marketing strategy and said the Saturn was 64-bit

[TurboGrafxer AKA DCer]

man i am really suprised about this thread. no 'no' votes at all. that calls for a turbografx week. anyone ogt a copy of splaterhouse for sale at a decent price?

[Cobra]

  http://cgi.ebay.com/SPLAT...62053QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Mezmoron]

I've been trying to get a cheap TG16 system for a LONG time, but I've only gotten 2 that were both broken.  Hopefully someone will help me out someday.

Ken

[Cobra]

Whats your definition of cheap?
This was the cheapest I could find for ya
http://cgi.ebay.com/Turbo...ZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

A lot of people still don't know what a TG16 is, so I think a week dedicated to it is a great idea.

NEC's first video game system looked 16-bit, sounded 16-bit, but in reality, it was 8-bit to the core. Though its main CPU was 8-bit, the chips that handled its graphics and sounds instructions were 16-bit, making the system look like a 16-bit system at first glance. One neat feature this unit had was that all it game cartridges, (or HuCards), were about the size of a credit card. This made the games extremely portable. This is reflected by the release of the "Turbo Express". It was a Gameboy looking device with a black case and a colour LCD screen. But unlike the Gameboy, where you had to buy a separate Gameboy version of a NES game to play it on Gameboy, you could use the same HuCard for the main unit on the Turbo Express just like the Sega Nomad!

A CD-ROM unit was later released: the first CD unit for any console unit. Though a bit expensive, it never got a large following from the consumer. The Turbo Grafx 16 unit later faded out of the main stream market a year or two year later, but its imprint to the world wouldn't.

NEC is one of the few companies I truly trust, in fact my PC was made by NEC 
Other electrical companies I trust to the same degree are Philips and Panasonic.

[phoenix1967]

Didn't we just feature a TG16 game a couple of weeks ago?

[Cobra]

Something Dreamcaster will possibly find interesting is that the Dreamcast's graphic processor was made by NEC along with Videologic.

By the way, I think he meant a week dedicated to the actual system.

So why is the NEC Turbo Grafx 16 so unheard of?

It's simple really, much like the Sega Saturn it's true success story lies in Japan, a country that knows good technology when they see it.
But this is even more complicated in the case of the Turbo Grafx 16, as Turbo Grafx 16 was merely it's US name, yep it got renamed, but not just renamed, the entire thing got a new look. The slimmer sexier Japanese release was called the NEC PC-Engine.

Ahhh... so now it's all making more sense, no?
And then to top it all off, it never got a PAL release so all of Europe, Australia, and New Zealand all missed out.

7 million units were still sold nevertheless and it had around 650 games released for it.
Rated 5 stars by The encyclopedia of Game.Machines this is what they had to say, witch RF is more than welcome to reuse if they want in the event we have a NEC's great system week.

Rectangular, not much bigger than a handheld and with a slim slot instead of a fat cartridge flap: The PC-Engine was an achievement of diminishing electronics. Even 15 years after its launch, it still appears modern and practical. Games came on thin HuCards – to date the smallest media for stationary hardware.
 
The joint development by chip manufacturer NEC and games producer Hudson marked the transfer from the 8-Bit age to the 16-Bit era. Released in 1987 in Japan, the PC-Engine, with its 6502-related processor and 16-Bit custom graphics chip, stood between the best selling NES and the highly anticipated Mega Drive and Super Nintendo consoles. Although it was based on a CPU similar to that used by the Apple II, NES and C64, the PC-Engine hardware was totally superior graphically and acoustically. Tapped to the full potential by experienced programmers, the PC-Engine even left Amiga computers behind in comparison. In 1987 and beyond, the machine was second to none.

[TurboGrafxer AKA DCer]

i also posted this in the 'trophies from the hunt' part of rfg. but i figured it deserved to be put here as well. also seeing that afew were looking for cheap tg16 games. well here is my score of all scores.

check this....
all these turbografx 16 games only cost me $50 for all of them. i cant believe this myself.

games with plastic sleeve, card and booklet:
tiger road
cyber-core
china warrior
moto roader
dragon spirit
victory run
psychosis
ballistix (2 copies)
silent debuggers (2 copies)
alien crush
devil's crush
pac-land
military madness
boxyboy
parasol stars
blazing lazers
legendary axe 2
world class baseball
raiden
king of casino
ordyne
galaga '90
super star soldiers
legendary axe
power golf
fantasy zone

just card and sleeve
final lap twin
hit the ice
tv sports football
drop off
talespin
sidearms

booklet only
blazing lazers
dead moon
aero blasters
impossamole

ALL FOR ONLY $50!!!!!!!!!!

[TurboGrafxer AKA DCer]

i could post this in the sale/trade area.. but i think its gonna get more attention here. staff, please dont move this post. please.

this is what i have for the tg16 that i dont need. i would prefer to trade for other tg16 games if possible.

silent debuggers - card and booklet
power golf - card and booklet
legendary axe - card and booklet
ballistix - card and booklet
sidearms - card and booklet
fantasy zone - card
blazing lazers - booklet

oh, and on trading.... check to see if i got it. if i dont then i want it. greedy little bastard arent i?

[Cobra]

Fantasy Zone? Is that the one by Sega?

[TurboGrafxer AKA DCer]

Fantasy Zone? Is that the one by Sega?

yep. made by sega for the tg16.

[TurboGrafxer AKA DCer]

oh. i added up the values of my recent buy by ebay price averages and i came up with a grand total of $500. what a hell of a score.

[Necrosaro420]

I love the system.  Due to money issues I had to sell it and the cd player, all in a case last year =(  I kept my turbo express though!